Originally Posted by SandyinZ4
Wow k9dancer...Wish you were here to show me or I were at your house. I could use your tips. Do your machines have small or large throats? I still can not see how one can quilt a queen size top and start at the middle. Any tips?
Small throats. It's a Featherweight (small vintage 11 pound machine). The Bernina is not much bigger in the throat.
I start by rolling my quilts from the outside to the middle. At the top of the quilt, where it is flat between the 2 rolls, I slide the quilt down to the center. Now I have a flat surface with two long log rolls on either side. I start in the center and work down, then back up to the center and work toward my right. In other words, I work on a quarter of the quilt at a time, and that quarter will always be on MY lower right side. Does that make sense?
starting to quilt
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